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VengefulBale Bishie Gijinka Meta Knight from Nowhere Since: Feb, 2016 Relationship Status: It's complicated
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#326: May 28th 2021 at 10:56:13 PM

wild mass guessThe show was meant to be an Alternate Universe where Dick Hardly stole the Chemical X formula but someone mixed up scriptswild mass guess

Prettiest Meta Knight Gijinka, ngl
Cortez from Parts Unknown (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#327: May 28th 2021 at 11:21:23 PM

Oh, so the cartoon is actually Show Within a Show in this show?

Huh. That could have been interesting.

It could have if they had made the reference in a more respectful way.

The 03 turtles got their share of that too. They weren't as intense as the Mirage Turtles.

They did a great job of parodying Frank Miller narration.

The Mirage Turtles were treated like badasses in Forever.

Edited by Cortez on May 29th 2021 at 4:21:07 AM

Zeromaeus Since: May, 2010
#328: May 28th 2021 at 11:44:51 PM

I dont actually think this was made with malice towards the original. Its just following the current trend for dark teen dramas. CW is no stranger to the genre and likely just want to capitalize on the success of Riverdale and Winx while pulling in potential viewers from the Arrowverse crowd with the superhero trappings.

That its Powerpuff girls at all is most likely due to it just being a currently inactive IP that checks the right boxes at a surface level glance.

Edited by Zeromaeus on May 28th 2021 at 2:47:37 PM

lbssb The sleepiest good boi Since: Jun, 2020 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
The sleepiest good boi
#329: May 28th 2021 at 11:54:07 PM

Wait, was Winx successful? I legitimately don't know how well it did viewership-wise, but I remember the reviews were unanimously negative.

Edited by lbssb on May 28th 2021 at 11:54:39 AM

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#330: May 28th 2021 at 11:55:56 PM

Oh yeah. It uh got a fairly large viewership.

Basically Bile Fascination helped. [lol]

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MisterZygarde64 Crazy Crossover Creator - A Man with Many Hypoth from New Mobotropolis, Mushroom Kingdom Since: Dec, 2015 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#331: May 28th 2021 at 11:56:38 PM

[up][up][up]You say that but at least Winx Saga and Riverdale didn’t have the gall to imply their original creators whitewashed two characters out of bigotry as seen with that “whitewashed” comment in the script.

Edited by MisterZygarde64 on May 28th 2021 at 8:56:48 AM

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#332: May 28th 2021 at 11:58:05 PM

Ohhhh. I just got that.

Yeah, that is Unfortunate Implications out the wazoo.

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Zeromaeus Since: May, 2010
#333: May 28th 2021 at 11:59:44 PM

That's just part of the dark teen thing. Making good things out to have been bad all along.

Besides, Winx actively whitewashed its cast. I argue that that's worse.

Tuckerscreator (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#334: May 29th 2021 at 12:01:01 AM

Writers tend to not have input on casting decisions, so I doubt this reading was intentional, but man does this script make Drake look like he has absolutely no standards at all that he shamelessly approved a show that changed him from a Black man into a white one.

Edited by Tuckerscreator on May 29th 2021 at 12:01:36 PM

windleopard from Nigeria Since: Nov, 2014 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#335: May 29th 2021 at 12:50:55 AM

[up] If it made him look like a nicer person than he already was, I suppose I can see the logic.

Actually, what was the professor's job in the original show? He's never seen teaching classes at a university and he doesn't do any research for corporations or anything?

Zeromaeus Since: May, 2010
#336: May 29th 2021 at 1:05:49 AM

He does vague super science. Stuff that involves accidentally creating a hyper intelligent ape or three flying brick preschoolers. Stuff that leads to building Dynamo.

So, independant research? Maybe?

Edited by Zeromaeus on May 29th 2021 at 4:06:02 AM

MisterZygarde64 Crazy Crossover Creator - A Man with Many Hypoth from New Mobotropolis, Mushroom Kingdom Since: Dec, 2015 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#337: May 29th 2021 at 1:15:19 AM

There was a comment on a Know Your Meme page about this reboot where someone suggested that this was a plot by one of the girl’s enemies to defeat them. By dragging their names through the mud. Honestly the idea of this reboot being revealed to be a ploy to ruin the girls is more entertaining than the reboot itself.

Heck the idea of a show where the setting is changed to that of a dark teen drama and it being treated as a sign that something is wrong would be really fun to see.

Imagine a sequel to Ben 10 (2016) where everything is gloomy and many other dark teen things are abound. There are sudden retcons that along with making it more angsty and depressing also coincidentally make it more in line with the classic continuity like Petropia being destroyed, Phil Billings being an amoral con man, Kevin’s dad being dead, the Adaptational Heroism of the Incurseans as seen in Ben 10 Versus the Universe: The Movie no longer being a thing, and a different art style as part of the changes to the universe. While Ben hasn’t realized it yet, he and a few others feel that something seems off. It culminates in Xingo appearing and trying and succeeding at getting to Ben that he realizes that someone has altered the universe to become “another one of those crummy teen dramas” maybe the first season is dedicated to restoring the universe back to the way it was with Ben and a different lineup (Swampfire, Feedback, Walkatrout, Upchuck, Ghostfreak, Chromastone, and some original aliens) gathering up allies to help with restoring the universe and finding out who caused this alteration to happen.

Edited by MisterZygarde64 on May 28th 2021 at 11:08:28 PM

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#338: May 29th 2021 at 2:28:57 AM

The thing about the OG PWG show is that it was an affection parody of superheroes genre. Like that is one of the the last things you could pull a "dark and gritty" reboot and try to add in "realism".

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
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#339: May 29th 2021 at 2:30:15 AM

Well hey your not a true superhero property until you get a shitty realism deconstruction in an attempt at being Watchmen.

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Xopher001 Since: Jul, 2012
#340: May 29th 2021 at 3:22:31 AM

I wonder, do you think an Ed, Edd'n Eddy adapation might work being given the CW treatment?

Tuckerscreator (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#341: May 29th 2021 at 3:24:15 AM

How ironic. Alan Moore wrote Watchmen as a one-off experiment, just to mess around once depicting how weird it would be in real life to put on a spandex costume and punch out criminals. Readers would go "whoa, that's messed up" then go back to playing with their colorful toys of folks in underwear fighting space turtles, or so he thought.

Instead readers took it as the standard for all superheroes, and so now the underwear is made of Kevlar and the space turtles commit war crimes.

windleopard from Nigeria Since: Nov, 2014 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#342: May 29th 2021 at 4:48:25 AM

the space turtles commit war crimes.

Is this referring to anything specific?

Synchronicity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#343: May 29th 2021 at 5:43:11 AM

a currently inactive IP that checks the right boxes at a surface level glance.

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windleopard from Nigeria Since: Nov, 2014 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#344: May 29th 2021 at 6:05:06 AM

WITCH wasn't as popular as Winx so I guess its safe.

Beatman1 Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
#345: May 29th 2021 at 8:15:27 AM

A Totally Spies! show on the CW would just be making all the subtext text. And doing that might be too much for network television.

Joshbones Since: May, 2015
#346: May 29th 2021 at 8:19:45 AM

The Professor is usually an independent scientist, but in that one episode where they moved to citysville it was implied he had a job the whole time, so I'm not sure what that's about.

lbssb The sleepiest good boi Since: Jun, 2020 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Synchronicity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#348: May 29th 2021 at 10:15:48 AM

Basically it would just be Charlie’s Angels but darker.

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#349: May 29th 2021 at 10:20:37 AM

A Totally Spies! show on the CW would just be making all the subtext text. And doing that might be too much for network television.

So, a high budget porn series made by Playboy as an answer to HBO GOT?

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#350: May 29th 2021 at 10:26:31 AM

[up][up] Didn't they try that before? Only for it to crash and burn?

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